Gail Quotes

• Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Tree, Looks

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.711, Penguin

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• With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Illustration, Important, Haunting

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• Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Love Is, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.640, Penguin

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• I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

  Gayle King

  Names, Grades, Changed

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• Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

  Ayn Rand

  Beauty, Looks, Worship

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• If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

  Ned Rorem

  Strong, Book, Artist

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• Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

  Frederick Buechner

  Loneliness, Grief, Book

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• Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Discovery, Self

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• It was nobody’s choice. It was a chemical reaction. I had to cut it. It basically fell out. Somebody had said to me that it was just because, you know, you’re trying to make Gail, you know, because she’s just now coming out of the closet…Not even for 2 seconds would we ever do that. It literally was a really bad hair experience.

  Charlotte Sullivan

  Cutting, Hair, Choices

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• "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

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• We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Stories, World

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  I Like You, Giving, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

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• No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Happy Person, Persons

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• Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Baby, Hurt, Sadness

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.25, Hachette UK

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